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The Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice at William Paterson University will present a lecture by Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at on the University’s campus in Wayne. The lecture, titled “Prospects for Peace in Palestine,” will be held from 2 to 3:15 p.m. in University Commons Ballroom C. The public is invited to attend. Admission is free.
Khalidi is former president of the Middle East Studies Association and served as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation for the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 to June 1993. He is the author of numerous books, including Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009) and The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006), as well as dozens of articles. He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies. A member of the faculty at Columbia University since 2003, he is a graduate of Yale University and earned a doctorate from Oxford University.
William Paterson University’s Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice seeks to engage high school, college, and university students and teachers in innovative and practical ideas, actions, and programs that promote peace and justice through cooperative engagement, dialogue, and respect for opposing views and opinions. Previous lecturers have included Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project; Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Aftab Seth, Keio University, Japan, and India’s former ambassador to Japan, Vietnam, and Greece; and Madelyn Hoffman, director, New Jersey Peace Action, and longtime community organizer, author, and educator.
The program is co-sponsored by William Paterson University’s Departments of History and Political Science, Master’s Degree Program in Public Policy and International Affairs, Asian Studies Program, College of Education, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cotsakos College of Business, and Office of the Provost, and PalestinianGandhis.org.
Members of the community can access the campus via N.J. Transit's 744 bus, which stops at Wayne Hall, or the 748, which stops at Hobart Hall. Visitor parking will be available in the Camp Veritans lot at Entry 1 on Pompton Road, which will be served by a shuttle bus to the University Commons.
For additional information, contact Stephen Shalom, professor of political science, at 973-720-3433 or shaloms@wpunj.edu.
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